Hacker News: blinkbat

New comment by blinkbat in "No AI Co-Authors. A Manifesto"

blinkbat — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 21:22:16 +0000

Broken on mobile

New comment by blinkbat in "Code Review by Dines and Gilfoyle"

blinkbat — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:40:32 +0000

cute but... no proof it produces better results than a plain audit.

New comment by blinkbat in "Ask HN: How often do you use "Answer now" when using LLMs?"

blinkbat — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:30:00 +0000

I tell it to hurry up and deliver something it's been ruminating on sometimes if I'm on the go.

New comment by blinkbat in "The economics of a one-person AI business"

blinkbat — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 15:43:04 +0000

nobody wants to read yer slop bruh

Ask HN: Agents, comments, and harnesses – oh my

blinkbat — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 15:38:46 +0000

just curious if anyone knows or has a link to studies regarding comments in codebases and agentic dev. I recently went through and chopped 50%+ of the comments the model had left on initial build and I'm wondering if this improves parsing (obviously it will improve token usage) and reasoning -- hopefully not the inverse? anyone has looked into this?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48631738

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by blinkbat in "Ask HN: What's Your Agents.md?"

blinkbat — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 23:11:16 +0000

Rules, gotchas, choices.

New comment by blinkbat in "Ask HN: Is the hard part of adult friendship the second hangout?"

blinkbat — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 21:36:17 +0000

yeah, surely the reason why adult friendships have declined since before technology is that they had AI before and now they... wait.

> Curious how people here have seen adult friendships actually form after the first meeting.

you know, by... asking to hang out.

this is the craziest "using a computer to `solve` something that has nothing to do with computers" problem I've seen on here in a minute.

New comment by blinkbat in "Ask HN: If AI didn't exist, what would you be building today?"

blinkbat — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 05:52:16 +0000

Same as now, games, but slower.

New comment by blinkbat in "Playdate Became a Cult Classic"

blinkbat — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 22:09:36 +0000

not sure I want to play any crank-based games.

New comment by blinkbat in "Ask HN: Do you use Claude Code, Codex, or something else?"

blinkbat — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 20:37:15 +0000

claude - org pays for it. org used to pay for both, and i preferred codex back then (~3mo ago).

i find claude to be significantly lazier or require significantly more guidance. it does, however, have better design and ui/ux intuition.

New comment by blinkbat in "I feel like giving up on coding"

blinkbat — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 16:31:07 +0000

erm, what is your disability?

New comment by blinkbat in "How I play video games with spinal muscular atrophy"

blinkbat — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 18:48:13 +0000

King shit.

New comment by blinkbat in "Ask HN: How do you stay at the bleeding edge of AI tooling?"

blinkbat — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 18:20:04 +0000

an agent that runs weekly to summarize news in this domain would actually be a really healthy way to stay up to date without constant attention.

New comment by blinkbat in "Ask HN: How do you stay at the bleeding edge of AI tooling?"

blinkbat — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 18:19:12 +0000

sure, I program little routines or skills all the time. but for general-purpose stuff, claude code takes care of me.

New comment by blinkbat in "Ask HN: How do you stay at the bleeding edge of AI tooling?"

blinkbat — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 17:48:46 +0000

i don't even try. the good stuff will be absorbed by the corps and harness providers (claude code, etc). the less useful stuff will fall away naturally. current harnesses (claude code) suit my needs very well.

i haven't yet seen tooling that makes me think, "wow, this is the missing link, i need this" -- not since claude code started working very well with sub-agents.

New comment by blinkbat in "The AiCopalypse"

blinkbat — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:41:35 +0000

"Note: this article is completely AI-gen" at the END of the article? do us all a favor and put it FIRST next time...

The ongoing debacle of hiring a fake coworker

blinkbat — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:24:38 +0000

so, just had a guy ousted today in part due to my own judgment, as well as my boss'.

this guy passed the interview rounds cleanly with decent answers -- I was in one, and I suspected something was "off" about him, but was willing to go ahead.

after a couple months it becomes apparent this person is not really as inquisitive or critical as I'd like. they ask no questions, need no clarification, are silent in meetings.

once it comes time to look at PRs, it's incredibly apparent it's LLM slop. not even GOOD slop -- lots of things outright broken, non-conforming frontend design, messy and redundant code. you can imagine.

the person also cannot seemingly answer questions in sync. everything gets delayed, seemingly processed through the mouthpiece of AI. watching them live code is a mess. they seemingly have no idea what to do, until the AI instructs them. sometimes I even see them typing my questions in. (by the way, this was a SENIOR dev role.)

so, needless to say, the person is gone now after much hand-wringing. still a very bizarre experience, especially at my fairly tight-knit company composed of just two small dev teams.

now I'm wondering what we can do to prevent this from happening -- are in-person interviews the only way forward? thoughts?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48557755

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by blinkbat in "Ask HN: Do you remember when you gained consciousness? What was it like?"

blinkbat — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 23:14:54 +0000

one memory that has stuck was following the builders around my house at age 4 or 5, using my pretend tools to mimic whatever they were doing (they were installing bay doors).

New comment by blinkbat in "Record Every Meeting"

blinkbat — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 20:02:25 +0000

more often I see this used as an excuse to not clarify ideas to stakeholders / make proper tickets / contact needed parties with info they will need. "here, just watch the meeting" -- huge waste of time.

New comment by blinkbat in "Does Remote Work Make Employees Happier? Here's What the Evidence Says"

blinkbat — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 19:59:55 +0000

"fully remote workers miss the daily social interactions associated with the workplace"

nah...